FIELD WATER TESTING KIT DEVELOPED BY TWAD BOARD

In TWAD Board, for the National Rural Drinking Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance Programme , with the prime objective of institutionalisation of   community participation and involvement of PRIs, the field kit manufacturing unit is functioning from February 2006 onwards.

The field water testing kit developed by TWAD Board is simple, user friendly and cost effective to test 12 critical chemical parameters in drinking water ie    pH.alkalinity, hardness, chloride, total dissolved solids, fluoride, iron, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate , turbidity and residual chlorine .

The kit was evaluated and approved as “GRADE A” by Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

The Cost of one field kit is Rs 2500/=. The Reagents can be refilled at a cost of Rs 1750/ per kit in State level Water testing laboratory at Chennai.

100 samples can be tested with one set of reagents in one kit.

Weighing 1.5 kg only and no heating procedures are involved.

Individual test kits are also available for Turbidity , Fluoride and at the cost of Rs 150/- , Rs.150/- and Rs.100/- respectively.

For Bacteriological examination H2S vials are available at a cost of Rs 18/= per vial.

In Tamilnadu, field test kits are supplied to all 12,620 Panchayat Presidents and 2,225 schools to monitor the water quality in the field itself .

Five village level functionaries like SHG, PHC, School teacher , Panchayat clerk and Panchayat President from each panchayat were trained to use this kit with awareness on water quality and water borne diseases .

Further the 20,000 field test kits are also supplied to various other States like Andman & Nicobar, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Nager Haveli, Silvassam, Orissa, Puducherry, Punjab and Shimla for the usage in Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance under NRDWP.